“Beginning with mass production of this new V-NAND-based NVMe SSD, which
delivers the highest level of performance and density available today,
we expect to greatly expand the high-density SSD market,” said Jeeho
Baek, Vice President, Memory Marketing, Samsung Electronics. “Samsung
plans to actively introduce V-NAND-based SSDs with even higher
performance, density and reliability in the future, to keep its global
customers ahead of their competition.”

The SM1715 is an upgraded version of Samsung’s XS1715 in terms of drive
performance and reliability. That 2.5-inch XS1715 was bestowed a 2014
Flash Memory Summit Best of Show Award earlier this year for being one
of the Most Innovative Flash Memory technologies.

The newly introduced 3.2TB NVMe SSD provides a sequential read speed of
3,000 megabytes per second (MB/s) and writes sequentially at up to
2,200MB/s. It also randomly reads at up to 750,000 IOPS (input output
operations per second) and writes randomly at up to 130,000 IOPS.

In addition, the 3.2TB SM1715 features outstanding reliability with 10
DWPDs (drive writes per day) for five years. This provides a level of
reliability that enterprise server manufacturers have been requesting
for their high-end storage solutions.

The SM1715 comes in 1.6TB and 3.2TB versions, adding more NVMe options
to a 2.5-inch NVMe XS1715 lineup that includes 800GB and 1.6TB versions.

Since 2013, Samsung has introduced a range of industry-first 3D
V-NAND-based SATA SSDs for PCs and data centers. Now, it is rolling out
the SM1715 to accelerate the transition to the NVMe interface in the
premium server sector, while expanding its 3D V-NAND SSD business to
offer drives with more than 3TB of storage.

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* Editors’ Note: NVMe (Non-Volatile Memory Express) is an optimized,
high performance, scalable host controller interface with a streamlined
register interface and command set designed for enterprise and client
systems that use PCIe SSDs.